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March 26, 2024
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Granular Materials
A new technique visualizes the way forces are distributed in a collection of irregularly shaped grains. This method could lead to a better understanding of how some landslides and earthquakes are triggered.
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Engineering household robots to have a little common sense
With help from a large language model, MIT engineers enabled robots to self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores.
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Think globally, rebuild locally
In order to recycle construction materials, keep them close to home, a new study of Amsterdam suggests.
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MIT student-athletes take home national swimming titles
Kate Augustyn, Edenna Chen, Annika Naveen, Tobe Obochi, and Ella Roberson win various events at the 2024 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships.
Recaps 123, 4 from MIT Athletics
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Tech maze // Politico  
Research by MIT engineers finds that “when an AI tool for radiologists produced a wrong answer, doctors were more likely to come to the wrong conclusion in their diagnoses.” The study explored the “findings of 140 radiologists using AI to make diagnoses based on chest X-rays. How AI affected care wasn’t dependent on the doctors’ levels of experience, specialty or performance. And lower-performing radiologists didn’t benefit more from AI assistance than their peers.”  
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You could be doing the most interesting science in the world, but if you’re unable to explain it in a compelling way, nobody is going to know.
—Diana Chien PhD ’16, manager of the MIT School of Engineering Communication Lab, which helps students and postdocs hone their presentations, applications, resumes, and more
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